Improvement in carpet-bag frames



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CORNELIUS WAISH AND ZAOHARIAH WALSH, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNORS TO CORNELIUS WALSH.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARPET-BAG FRAMES. i

Specification forming part 0f Letters Patent No. 57,262, dated August 14,1866.

To all whom 'it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CORNELIUS WALSH and ZAOEARIAII WALSH, both of Newark, in the county ot' Essex and State of New Jersey, have made a new and useful Improvement in Pelissier Bag Frames 5 and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the nature, construction, and operation of the same, sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to which it appertains -to construct and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawing', which is made part of this specification, and in which the bag-frame is shown in an expanded condition with the bag attached.

The improvement consists in the mode of constructing the inner frame and attaching it to the jaw. The wooden and metallic plates composing1 the inner frame occupy a plane at right angles to the jaws, by which they are inclosed and to which they are attached.

In the drawing, AA are the jaws of the frame, made of sheet metal, and united at B to a rod which formsthe pintle or hingingpoint of thejaws. Inside each of thejaws is a stiftening-frame consisting of tWo slats of wood, C C, united by a metallic strip, D, the connection being made by rivets E E at the corners. The metallic strip D is extended at the ends to form tenons F F, which enter holes in the jaws and are riveted so as to be securely attached at their points and form a stiening for thejaw at this point in the line ofits length.

The jaws are likewise connected to the inner frame by the clips Gr G and H H, the former connecting the plate D with the jaws near the middle and the latter connecting the wooden slats with thejaw nearer the hinge.

The wooden slats are hinged together upon the pintle-rod B by means of plates I I riveted to the Wood.

To the plates D D the lock and clasp, respectively, of the fastening are attached.

Having described our invention, what we claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of thejaws A with the interior frames consisting of the wooden pieces C C, metallic hinge-pieces I I, and plates D, the latter secured by tenons I" F to the jaws, and both jaws and inner frames pivoted upon the bolt B, the whole constructed as described and represented.

CORNELIUS WALSH. ZACHARIAH WALSH. Witnesses:

G. SANDFOED, ABRAHAM MANNERS. 

